Word: evalyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 57, of North Carolina; and Evalyn Walsh McLean, 20, daughter of diamond-bearing dowager Evalyn Walsh McLean. The Senator has been married four times...
Died. Edward Beale McLean, 55, onetime publisher of the Washington Post, buyer of the famed Hope diamond; near Baltimore. He bought the diamond for a rumored $154,000 in 1911, gave it to his wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, mining heiress (Father Struck It Rich). In the early '20s they entertained spectacularly in Washington, were cronies of President Harding and his Cabinet members. Adjudged insane in 1933, McLean died in a sanatorium. His will, made in 1931, left $300,000 to Cinemactress Marion Davies' sister, Rose, for "her association and affection"; $5,000 to each of his three children...
Died. Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, eighth Duke of Newcastle, 75, one of England's ranking peers, onetime owner of the famed, traditionally deadly Hope diamond (now the property of Washington's Evalyn Walsh McLean), onetime husband of the late, tempestuous, U.S.-born Actress May Yohe; in Dorking, England...